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Tom Campbell hopes to raise he A.S. Council's central issue campuswide student involvement in ing to protect us students from fur- job market. revenue for the university by allowing of the night — which sparked acheiving accessibility, affordability ther tuition increases.” “She’s even singled out UCSD as UC researchers to retain the patents T nearly a two-hour debate and quality higher education. While the other gubernatorial can- part of the economic engine of the for their discoveries rather than forc- — surrounded the legalities of A.S. During oral reports, VP Student didates have not explicitly state,” Don said. ing them to turn the patents over to Mandate Reserves and the proper Life Riscie Hernandez announced discussed the systemwide Revelle College junior the state. usage of the council's backup funds. that Fall Fest tickets sales were low. UC walkout that took place Alec Weisman, editor of He hopes his plan will draw new Earlier, during public input, Her advice for raising sales in a mere on Sept. 24, several have conservative on-campus faculty members, despite the recent Campuswide Senator Adam two days? taken a stance on the prior- newspaper the California pay cuts and furloughs that have driv- Kenworthy offered a cheaper alterna- “Promote it to your constituents,” ity of funding higher edu- Newsom is Review, agrees. en away valuable UC professors. tive to the proposed A.S. sponsored she said. cation. the only guy... “Whitman would go Jerry Brown, former governor of “No Koala” campaign. Armed with As the motions from the finance Republican candidate “ with what would work on California and prospective Democratic actually trying a stack of fliers which Kenworthy committee were slowly approved, the Meg Whitman, who is the a statewide level and would candidate, has released no public state- said cost about council halted at former CEO of eBay, said to protect us actually get things done, ment conveying his views on edu- $3.40 to make, the specific word- that in today’s economy, students.” based on how a business cation. (Brown has not yet officially compared to the New ing of a motion the state should “put jobs would do it,” Weisman said. declares his candidacy, despite having $1500 budget to fund a $10,000 first.” VICTOR LIN Republican candidate filed paperwork a week ago.) President Utsav Business allocation to Phi Though Whitman said PRESIDENT, Steve Poizner, who made Brown drew heavy criticism in UCSD COLLEGE Gupta proposed KELSEY WONG Gamma Delta. she would like to "restore a name for himself as a 1992 when he suggested that teach- DEMOCRATS to set aside for [email protected] The council much of the spending in Silicon Valley entrepre- ers should calculate “psychic income” the cause. passed amend- higher education,” she neur, said the state should — or, the satisfaction and intrinsic Next, Associate Vice President of ments to take $10,000 from A.S. added that universities must take a provide “necessary resources” for uni- rewards they got from teaching — into Local Affairs Aries Yumul brought Mandate Reserves, but many felt backseat to reviving California's job versities to produce more engineering their overall salary. up a sensitive issue regarding the strongly against using the stored market. and business students. California Valley Miwok Tribe. As funds for a cause not explicitly Warren College junior John Don, He has not yet presented any possi- Readers can contact Hayley Bisceligia- he held his cell phone to the micro- stated by the organization filing the a member of College Republicans at ble solutions for saving the UC system. Martin at [email protected]. phone, Tribal Chair Silvia Burley request. told the council how her tribe was After much debate and a 10-min- evicted from their land by a county ute recess, the council reconvened. sheriff's department. “Ideologically [the money] was “We’re fighting to stand up for taken from other student orgs, but /ZMMV)K\Q^Q[\[;MMS8IZ\VMZ[PQX_Q\P4WKIT+WUXW[\.IKQTQ\a our sovereign rights and to kick the fiscally, it’s right,” Campuswide ▶ COMPOST, MYVTWHNL sion specialist resigned and the post all waste on campus, but the non-Indians out of our business,” an Senator Alex Vu said. into the appropriate receptacles. position will not be filled. Instead, enormity of the task proved unfea- emotional Burley said. The council settled to pass the "We are working with our dining Sustainability Analyst Kristen sible. AVP Enterprise Operations Rishi underwrite and take $10,000 out of guests to sort their waste into the cor- Hansen will take on the position's According to founder Michelle Ghosh gave a special presentation Mandate Reserves. rect bins, so that when we can take responsibilities, which include help- Kizner, the group is now focused on about the Sustainability Center. Campuswide Senator Bryant Pena the composting to the city’s program ing the campus increase diversion raising awareness and encouraging Councilmembers received free pins asked councilmembers during Open the material is clean and ready to go," waste, promoting recycling programs people to bring their compost mate- and recycled notebooks with the Forum to sign a petition that sup- Mays said. "We anticipate being able and increasing access to local com- rial from home to the team's small center’s newly designed logo. The porting making the new Chicano art to actually divert the compostables to posting. compost site located near the Hopkins center, which will open in Price mural on Peterson Hall permanent. the city’s compost facility by the end Souder said that UCSD is plan- Parking Structure. Center West on Nov. 20, will provide Gupta ended the relatively short of 2009." ning to write composting agreements "We are looking to begin compost- programming focused on a differ- meeting with a statement that gener- HDH has also encountered bud- into its contracts with waste haulers ing with student entities like the Food ent sustainability-related cause each ated gasps of excitement from coun- geting obstacles. Last year, HDH that provide composting services on Co-op and the Grove, and will also month. cilmembers. planned to hire analysts to study the their sites. use the site as a drop-off location for In a presentation by the council's “I’m working to get ‘B’ permits for university's food waste and suggest The Compost Team, a student interested people to bring their com- external affairs office, VP External college chairs and A.S. senators,” he ways to decrease it; however, the plan organization dedicated to compost- postables,” Kizner said. Affairs Gracelynne West and UCSA said. “I’m going to submit a proposal was never implemented due to lack ing and sustainability, composted field organizer Jeanalee Obergfell soon, so if you'd like to put your of funds. 100 pounds of waste last year. The Readers can contact Angela Chen at discussed the office's mission to build name on this list, email me.” In addition, UCSD's waste diver- group originally intended to com- [email protected]. 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He indisputably plucks his uunibrow.nibrow. But you won’t see thee GameGame hiding out in his nerd boxox anytime soon. In 2004, over two independently pushed albums — both god- awful, not that he cared — Taylor talked himselff into a big enough blimp to set off the dollar-sign radars of top-game G-UnitUnit thugs and scrambling Interscopenterscope cronies alike. By the timeme 2005’s star-streaked Documentaryary dropped, smack-dab in the middlee ofof thethe West Coast hip-hop revival, thehe Game hhadad gathered an almost unprecedentedrecedented fire trail of support on thehe beatbeat — Hi-Tek, Storch, Timbaland,and, Blaze,Blaze, Kanye and Dre himself all saw some-some- thing big busting from thathat painpainfullyfully scratchy, unremarkable tthroat.hroat. Even the ogreish 50 sounded a smidge more endearing next to thethe Game’s revving engines — if onlyl because the latter out-ogred him. The turn cobblestones platinum, a shared that Game has sparked over 20 beefs In this way, the Game schemed “My Life” the ghetto tearjerker of Cool and Dre-produced “Hate It or noble air of stony self-importance since then, from pay-attention-to-me his own demise: Doctor’s Advocate the new millennium, and may have Love It” was bone-chilling; whether was enough to make us forget the darts at Dre to unthought monkey and LAX didn’t even outsell his debut learned to rap in the process. or not 50 and Game knew how former’s tear tattoo and latter’s medi- shit like “Banks is a bitch, 50 is a combined. But there always seems He’s headed this way, and hip- ridiculous they were, low-riding on cally unsound ape stance. bitch, Buck is a bitch, Yayo is a bitch, to be a genius on his side. With Lil hop’s biggest loner is about to teach a wavy live-jazz loop like they could Which is why it’s so sad, really, Olivia’s a bitch — no, Olivia’s a man.” Wayne’s help, Game made last year’s RIMAC to swag. ILLUSTRATION BY CHRISTINA AUSHANA/GUARDIAN (5),9305;/,.(4, /63@-<*2;/,.(4, ▶ FUCK, MYVTWHNL contrast to the heaps of stale electronic outfits populat- ing the Canuck club scene. Instead of having serious stare-downs with their laptops, the group’s stage presence is wily and unpre- dictable, applying a kitchen-sink approach to its musi- cal repertoire. Brian Borcherdt and Graham Walsh each man a massive table covered in mini-Casios and assorted analog gear — none of the band’s sound comes ▶ ANBERLIN, MYVTWHNL deigned to morph into the puke-scream days. It’s pretty much just alright. from a computer screen. crowd dressed in tight t-shirts (extra favored by Anberlin’s brother-bands (Fall Come Friday, if you find yourself On tracks like “Royal Gregory,” the members even points for irony). And, judging from the Out Boy, I’m lookin’ at you). His rich man- head-banging to a dude with a high- incorporate ad-lib squelches by yanking film through first explosion of electric guitar with a shower vocals shift Anberlin out of pimply lighted mullet striding around the stage a 35-mm film synchronizer. Matts McQuaid and drum beat like it had just run a marathon, territory, rendering something more like — gesticulating like the most avuncular of Schulz helm bass guitar and drums, respectively, serve you’d be right. emo’s chill older brother who’s also a born- professors as he wails, “Who’s gonna call as the Owen Biddle and Questlove of the indie-dance The Florida-raised fivepiece doesn’t again Christian. It’s the voice that roars on Sunday Morning?/ Who’s gonna drive genre. look like much, but where Anberlin stands the bitterest parts of “Paper Thin Hymn,” you home?” — you can pretend you’ve Fun is the endgame for Fuck, as heard through the out from their blurry, bleak counterparts is murmurs softly in “The Unwinding Cable gotten lost on your way to something, uh, krautrock-meets-Fatboy Slim buoyancy of “Milkshake”, in a 20/20 clarity on layering: Every chord Car” and hiccups with utmost precision in cooler. But don’t be afraid to stick around which sounds improvised but stays on course with its and beat remains distinct in a world that “Blame Me! Blame Me!” Basically, it’s stuff and shed a few tears while Christian sin- distorted yelps and throb-bass framework tends to rub its fingers raw with each stut- both you and your girlfriend can sing to. gle-handedly raises the scars your high- Just think: our precious student fees are going to a ter of the strings. Above all soars Stephen It’s the band you introduce to your parents school sweetheart left with the bombastic, Canadian collective with the word Fuck in its name. Christian’s voice, a naive tenor barely when they ask what you listen to these despairing “Feel Good Drag.” Sniff. It really does’t get better than that. FILMREVIEW Tour of capsule peering into the directors’ own Jewish Like sinister the film’s self-conscious, Cruise: DIY childhoods than a product of their outrageous puppeteers, the period-piece feel, when Coens Get imaginations. the young man shows up It’s 1967, and Larry Gopnick (Michael Coens weave to his own bar mitzvah so Journey Stuhlbarg) is trapped in a Minnesota suburban slow pacing thoroughly blazed that he Personal in dystopia — not unlike the Coens, pre-Oscars. with deadpan barely manages to sound Drives Home Gopnick’s wife (Sari Lennick) wants to divorce him humor to evoke out the Torah. for the pompous Sy Abelman (Fred Melamed); his the eerie Though it was prob- PT. 3 1960s Time promotion at the university is being hampered by ably the Coens’ intention, an anonymous letter writer; his worst student is suffocation Larry’s suburban universe he following is a travelogue from trying to bribe his way to a passing grade; his son of suburban feels staged to the point a two-week West Coast tour that is getting high at Hebrew school; his blue-collar of overkill, much like the perfection, as my band, Nobody Wave, and my Capsule neighbor doesn’t understand property lines; and, popular advertisements T Larry — the neighborhood friends’ band, Pretend, worst of all, the rabbi won’t so much as see him. of the decade that invade embarked on this summer. Last week, Like sinister puppeteers, the Coens weave embodiment of every scene — minus A Serious Man slow pacing with deadpan humor to evoke the male mediocrity shiny happiness. In their STARRING MICHAEL STUHLBERG, SARI LENNICK & RICHARD KIND eerie suffocation of suburban perfection, as — struggles efforts to break down the DIRECTED JOEL & ETHAN COEN Larry — the embodiment of male mediocrity — to understand decade into meticulous Suburban RATED R struggles to understand why bad things happen why bad things detail, the directors leave 01:05 to good people. the audience wondering, Steez It is within these moments of utter disil- happen to good along with our unlikely CHRIS KOKIOUSIS lusionment, as all Larry’s well-intentioned yet people. hero, whether any of it was [email protected] distinctively clueless acquaintances offer him real — or worth it. By Gretchen Wegrich Contributing Writer pointless anecdotes and monotone advice, that Maybe it’s the generation gap, but too many I left you as the gang drove 10 hours the comedic gold of the film shines through. punch lines and pop-culture references get lost in to Portland, passing through Weed, he Coen brothers made their mark on After all, when life goes up in flames, what is translation, undoubtedly flying over the heads of Calif. Hollywood by pushing motony’s stylistic there left to do but laugh? anyone not approaching senior citizenship. But It was time for a pit stop. We were T limit — exploring morose themes with even While stony dialogue is forced at times, the if you can sit through back-to-back slow pans of all getting cranky after enduring hours darker humor. Despite a shoddy screenplay, “A majority of the cast manages to be believable in listless ‘60s suburbia, the Coens’ characteristic and hours of I-5’s endless flat; luck- Serious Man” is no exception, though this 1960s spite of their boxy screenplay. Only in Larry’s son disregard for a traditional Hollywood ending is ily, there was a Subway and T. Bell in period piece feels more like an introspective time Danny (Aaron Wolff) do we see a departure from worth the wait. See KOKIOUSIS, page 7 HIATUS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2009 THE UCSD GUARDIAN All Comes Full Circle for Cozy Hug-Haters *96::05.)6>: ▶ KOKIOUSIS, MYVTWHNL Portland homies, our gear So long, City of Roses. On Weed. We pulled off and safely stowed in the Econovan. the way back, we played a parked at the gas super- Just as we were about to take totally empty coffee-shop station, glanced at the day’s off, the Hugs showed up; it show in Sacramento, then news stories in the Weed was nearing 12:30 a.m., and made the hellish drive on the Press, and then went explor- they still hadn’t made an I-5 back to LA, and onward ing. This trucker hangout was appearance. to San Diego. We had our last filled with gems like a “I Got A lanky, strung-out dude band sleepover in our friend High in Weed, California” hat exited their van and sulked Arturo’s cozy campervan and a “Shut the Duck Up!” over to us. after a show in La Mesa. The T-shirt — an image of a mal- “Hey … are you guys in the dream was coming to a close. lard whose bill is duct-taped other bands?” he asked, defi- A sketchy downtown LA shut. It was a welcome break nitely on downers. “Hey man, show and a good night’s sleep from the monotonous desert do you think we could borrow later, we were back to reality. landscape. your P.A. and a kick-drum All that was left was our After what seemed like pedal? Thanks. Oh, and a homecoming, Thousand Oaks, forever, we arrived microphone too?” a final concert in the company in PDX and got We were of friends. It had to be in some much-need- We pulled our pissed. Not only Andy’s backyard, for after a ed chill time. Our gear out, and was this dude handful of magical pool-party show was in the hauled all the not expressing BBQs, it had almost become Portland ’burbs, at shit back into his gratitude, he tradition. We set up our gear, a mutual friend’s the basement. wasn’t even in savoring each roar of feedback house with an the band. Just a as we played again to the kids empty basement While the Hugs roadie, or some- who were all there to see us off just begging for played like a thing. The Hugs at the beginning. us to play in. We disaffected had sent one of But the only way to really jammed and made flower-power their messengers finish the tour was with a friends with locals Strokes, we all because they were meal, so we caravanned Oliver and Carly, too lame to ask to In-n-Out. I thought who wanted to us lined up and us themselves. Burgerville was in the same to eat some real peed on their Grudgingly, we fast-food league as the Oregon cuisine van. It was the accepted their California institution, but I post-rock. right thing to do. request; there were had a hard time convincing They took us still lots of kids the rest of the gang. When we to Burgerville, who wanted to see finished our Double-Doubles, baby, and it was delicious. them, despite their douche- we took a group picture in We sat cross-legged on the baggery. Without another front of the Econovan, mak- parking-lot gravel in a circle word, we pulled our gear out, ing stupid faces but really just of communion, eating our leaving a disheveled backseat, being bummed it was over. Tillamook Cheddar Baskets and hauled all the shit back We’d bonded so much over the with smiles of ecstasy. There into the basement. trip that it was weird saying was no way anyone could put While the Hugs played goodbye, after spending every a blemish on our night. like a disaffected flower- waking moment together — ERIK JEPSEN/GUARDIAN Except for the Hugs. power Strokes, we all lined up and every night a-spoon — for Showcasing the impeccable acoustics of the new Conrad Prebys Concert Hall, the UCSD Music Department kicked We cruised back to the and peed on their van. It was two weeks straight. I went off a chamber series entitled “Camera Lucida,” in which a quintet of established classical musicians performing house where we’d played the right thing to do. home and passed out, think- pieces by Schubert, Mendellsohn and Brahms. on Oct. 5. The second of five concerts this school year will take place and hung out with our new We were heading south. ing of adventures to come. in early December. LA JOLLA ART & WINE FEST druthers GIRARD AVE, LA JOLLA exit strategy HIATUS PICKS THE WEEK’S BEST BETS OCT. 10 AND 11, 9 A.M. TO 5 P.M. / $7 THIS WEEK ON CAMPUS This weekend, Girard Avenue will be transformed RODRIGO Y GABRIELA into an art-and-wine festival to celebrate La PASSION PIT DEAN AND BRITTA NONSEXIST DANCE CODY & FRAN 4TH AND B Jolla’s artist-colony roots in the style of a modern KSDT THE LOFT PORTER’S PUB ESPRESSO ROMA OCT. 10, 8 P.M. / $35 European street fair. The two-day event, which OCT. 8, 2 P.M. OCT. 9, 8 P.M. OCT. 10, 8 P.M. 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UCSD (JYVZZMYVT<;*5L_[[V)YPZ[VS-HYTZ(JYVZZMYVT<;*5L_[[V)YPZ[VS-HYTZ CostaCosta VerdeVerde CenterCenter *HQHVHH$YH6XLWH*HQHVHH$YH6XLWH 6DQ'LHJR&$ 6DQ'LHJR&$ 66 =PZP[V\YV[OLYSVJH[PVUZ! 1660 Camino de la Reina, Suite D 1Rrth El Camino Real 6DQ'LHJR&$ (QFLQLWDV&$ THE UCSD GUARDIAN THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2009 HIATUS ALBUMREVIEWS The Clientele 4 The Backstreet Boys 5 Air 7 Bonfires on the Heath This Is Us Love 2 MERGE 10 JIVE 10 ASTRALWERKS 10 Lullaby-Rock Flatlines in Backstreet’s Back, Shucking Boy- French Twosome Hold Steady to Their 4WVO,ZI_V7]\*WVÅZM Band Pop for the Auto-Tune Trend Enigmatic Place Among the Competition ne part Floyd, one part bossa nova and one part ack when they mattered, the Backstreet Boys could always hen Air first made their English-language debut with Moon Safari back elevator music, the Clientele’s Bonfires on the be counted on to churn out albums chock full of syrupy, in 1998, the album’s crisp ambient beats and hits like “Sexy Boy” and O Heath proves that a solid shtick isn’t always a B lovelorn ballads and high-energy teen pop. Even amid W “You Make it Easy” cemented the French electronic duo’s reputation as good thing. those sparkly slews of hit-factory pop, they still managed to purveyors of seduction. Eleven years later, Air continue to deliver with Love Think of the album as half of a cosine wave: It produce infectious, stuck-in-your-head lyrics and harmonies 2, a throwback to their “Virgin Suicides” soundtrack, steeped in tracks that starts off strong for a brief moment, climbing steadi- that adult males would secretly hum. But on their newest, most would meld just as well into the background of a tender, indie-romance flick. ly upward, then drops straight downhill toward an “mature” effort, This Is Us, most cuts play like rejects from Justin This film begins on a stormy night: Our heroine stands under the light infinite void — all the while remaining wholly and Timberlake’s 2006 banger FutureSex/LoveSounds — that is, if of a single streetlamp while six-minute gem “Tropical Disease” sets the scene utterly unsexy. they’d been written five years before. with shimmering notes of cascading instrumentation. Dashing into the near- The first track, “I Wonder Who We Are,” fea- The boys embrace a new techno — taking tips from Kayne’s est building for refuge, she serendipitously meets her love interest in a dim tures Alasdair MacLean in a role we’re actually glad vocoder-heavy hits — and attempt to reinvent themselves as a lounge filled with the dense, rich beats of the appropriately named “Love.” to hear him in: slow, Ella Fitzgerald-esque scatter modern dance-pop number, more appropriate for the clubgoing The plot shifts to the male perspective as they dance to yearning ballad with big-band percussive piano and horns to back crowd than a preteen Discman circa 1997. “So Light is her Footfall” (“Such a five-minute stranger/ I wish I could have him. Attempts to modernize go so far as a vampire-themed video her/ She is an angel”). The two head back to his place only to find dire devel- From there on, however, we might as well be for first single “Straight Through My Heart,” though the group opments ruin their plans. The drama is appropriately emphasized by odd sucking down a bottle of Codeine. “Bonfires on the has kept a few familiar elements: synchronized dancing, harmo- number “Eat My Beat,” one of the album’s weaker tracks, whose title alone Heath” drowns us in guitar slides upon guitar slides nized solos and, of course, repetitive choruses that burn them- makes it a Michael Jackson tribute gone wrong. to the point of “Revolution 9” repetition — about as selves into your neurons. The heroine temporarily wallows in despair on “Missing the Light of the much listenability as a metronome. The new dance/trance element detracts from the gooey Day” — a robotic, repetitive jingle that harkens the far-off “Sexy Boy.” Not to With flu season and cough-induced insomnia en charm that made the group so popular all those years ago. Their be deterred, she quickly rebounds and pursues her man, with the feisty “Be route, this snooze-button album isn’t entirely inap- old shout-from-the-top-of-your-lungs choruses are barely pres- a Bee” as motivation. Their last obstacle overcome, the two reunite among propriate. And, all sarcasm aside, there are a few ent, and the yearning ballads don’t even make an appearance. cheerful plucks and melancholy, foreshadowing lines (“Nothing lasts/ It’s bet- tracks that approach the band’s earlier, more ener- By working again with Max Martin — one of BSB’s former ter that way”) on “Sing Sang Sung.” getic appeal. But even the funky “Sketch” falls apart producers — high-end production makes them into a bunch of In the years since Air’s debut, a new crop of French electrodes has when MacLean drops in to accompany his breathi- European Top 40-wannabes landing in America for the first time. emerged (see: Justice, Phoenix), but this duo is still creating atmospheric ness with cowbell overkill. This Is Us will be fine for the dingier of dance floors, but a small LPs with gorgeous sonic subtlety. Give Love 2 a spin and get lost in reverie. At least Bob Dylan channels the struggle of the piece of nostalgia makes us wish they’d hit us with something Imagine it into your own film, or better yet, invite someone along and take people — what’s MacLean’s excuse? more extreme than today’s flimsy trends. some advice from the album’s lead single “Do the Joy.” You can thank me later. — Matthew Pecot — Neelaab Nasraty — Angela Chen Staff Writer Staff Writer Contributing Writer “ NE OF THE MOST DEEPLY MOVING O ROMANTIC FILMS IN MEMORY.” KENNETH TURAN, A Major League Career “TO QUOTE KEATS: ‘A THING OF BEAUTY IS A JOY FOR EVER.’ SEE IT.” A.O. SCOTT, “” M.A. in Sport Management An evening Master’s program to build managerial, marketing, and strategic skills in the sport marketplace. Classes start in July and meet one evening a week. Attend an information meeting! Thursday, Oct. 15 UC San Diego Graduate School Fair 10:30am–2:30pm, Library Walk or Hilton San Diego Resort 6:30pm, 1775 E. Mission Bay Dr., San Diego For more information: So. Calif. Program 714.633.5626 San Fran. Program 415.422.2678 www.usfca.edu/sm Doug Carnahan, Manager of Corporate Partnerships AMC LANDMARK ULTRASTAR San Diego Chargers For a complete listing of graduate programs, NOW FASHION VALLEY 18 LA JOLLA VILLAGE FLOWER HILL CINEMA USF Sport Management alum visit: www.usfca.edu/graduate 7037 Friars Rd. 8879 Villa La Jolla Dr. 2630 Via de la Valle PLAYING (858) 558-2AMC (619) 819-0236 Del Mar (858) 646-9425 HIATUS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2009 THE UCSD GUARDIAN FILMREVIEW Introspective Family Drama Shatters Language Barrier By Philip Rhie problem be simplified into a punch heavily on Japanese iconography. By one another. are ever completely visible. Instead, Senior Staff Writer line. Hirozaku Koreeda confronts this the time we’re introduced to the cast, Ryota (Hiroshi Abe), the eldest liv- hostility is manifested in passive- topic in “Still Walking,” the acclaimed we’re already so enraptured by their ing son, harbors bitterness towards his aggressive remarks left for the audi- amily issues are hard to take director’s latest analysis of family life. culture that we’ve almost completely father for undermining his career deci- ence to decode. Subtlety is the name seriously. Bring them up in “Walking” is defined by its forgotten our own. sions. In turn, Ryota’s father resents his of the game, and it is our job to put F casual conversation, and you’re Japanese heritage, and Koreeda works While the film is a family drama, son for not following in his footsteps the pieces of the family’s complicated sure to get stares. It’s no wonder hard to portray the essence of his cul- it centers on smaller conflicts that and becoming a doctor. Ryota’s mother history together. that in television shows and movies ture’s beauty. In the opening sequenc- grow beneath the surface of familial disapproves of Ryota’s marriage to While the tension never loosens alike, family dramas are consistently es, we’re greeted by rolling Japanese temperament during the anniversary Yukari, (Yui Natsukawa) a widowed its grip, by the end of Ryota’s visit, all reduced to comedic farce or tear- landscapes and lush cherry blossoms of the eldest son’s death. As the family mother. Yukari, in turn, resents that rough edges have been smoothed out, jerking melodrama. It’s easier to brush — moving cinematography that seems converges to reflect on their loss, we she is resented. And so it goes. and the characters — us included — aside conflict than to deal with it. to mimic still-life. The director shifts are introduced to two distinct genera- But the film’s true beauty lies in are left with a satisfying sense of hope In real life, though, rarely can a thoughtfully between frames, focusing tions and their deep resentments of the fact that none of these conflicts for a better future. 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UCSD’s last showing The Tritons will race again at the sophomore Billy McCall were defeat- Sonoma State duo Olson and third round. at the ITA National Championship Triton Classic on Oct. 10, their last ed 8-6 by Sonoma players Olson and Bianco defeated Fellow and Ling in a However, despite their elimina- was in 2007, by doubles partners Eric home meet of the season. Taylor Bianco. Apart from the loss, grueling 9-7 battle to earn their spot tion in the singles bracket, Mulloy Rubens and Blake Meister. Though they will be competing UCSD won all its second-round dou- in the championship game against and Pourmirzaie formed a doubles West said she was very pleased at the same event as the men, the bles contests on the second day of the Emami and West. The UCSD duo team that provided UCSD’s lone vic- with the Tritons’ first tournament women’s team will return to the nor- tournament. played strong en route to an 8-5 vic- tory in Oct. 2’s women’s tournament. of the 2009 season, and hopes they mal 6K length, while the men will Redshirt junior Alex Placek and tory, dispatching their Sonoma State They defeated Cal State Los Angeles’ maintain their momentum. have their first competition on the 10K sophomore Chapman Chan beat opponents and claiming the tourna- Dori Kiss and Linda Majzlikova 8-4. “We stayed positive throughout course — the distance at which they Sonoma State duo Bryce Keefer and ment championship. Mulloy and Pourmirzaie could not, the game and kept playing hard,” West will have to compete in the conference Quan Vu 9-8 in a closely fought “It was tied 6-6, and the other team however, continue their roll, and were said. “We need to keep our consis- and national championships. matchup that earned them a spot in came up with some big serves,” head knocked out in the quarterfinals by a tency from the baseline going [for the The race also serves as the Tritons’ the doubles semifinals. coach Eric Steidlmayer said. “[Emami Cal Poly Pomona pair. ITA National Championship].” final tune-up before the California Emami and West sunk Grand and West] just hung in there and were “I was really impressed with how Before the ITA National Collegiate Athletic Association cham- Canyon University duo Eric Schroeder able to pull out the win.” the team hung in there,” women’s head Championship, the men will face pionships on Oct. 24. The women and Brian Kirby 8-3, propelling them- On the women’s side, the third coach Liz LaPlante said. “For the first Point Loma Nazarene University on begin their portion of the Triton selves forward in the tournament. round proved to be UCSD’s downfall. matches of the season, I was pleased.” Oct. 9. The Triton women will be back Classic at 9 a.m. The men follow at Fellow and sophomore Sam Sophomore Krystal Mizuguchi was UCSD’s other doubles pair, Yeung in action on Nov. 14 and Nov. 15 to 10 a.m. Ling sealed a 9-7 victory against the defeated 6-0, 6-1 by one of the brack- and Mizuguchi, lost 8-0 to BYU- compete at UC Irvine. Broncos’ top doubles team Joshua et’s top seeds: BYU-Hawaii sopho- Hawaii’s No. 1-seeded team, ending Readers can contact Liam Rose at Lau and Keith Boggero to round up more Yuan Ji. the Triton women’s run in the ITA Readers can contact Jessy Jahangir at [email protected]. UCSD’s doubles events on Friday. 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Humboldt State, to help lead UCSD to a weekend split. ;87:<;+76<)+<<0--,1<7:"[email protected] :]VVMZ[ 1<)?-;<:-/176+0)58176;018; 8ZMXIZM NWZ By Liam Rose Staff Writer CROSS COUNTRY – In a non colle- giate event open to the San Diego run- ning community, the UCSD men’s and women’s cross country teams turned in top performances, simultaneously using the meet as an opportunity to give its second-string athletes invalu- able racing experience. Senior Jesse Morrill led the Tritons, finishing first overall in the Ursula Rains 5K Race at Balboa Park on Oct. 3. The team placed five runners in the top 25 at the open meet. Hosted by the San Diego Track Club, the 5K race drew many of the best amateur runners in the greater San Diego area and deviated from typi- cal Triton meets in distance and com- petition: Both the men and women raced the 5K together, instead of the usual 8K for men and 6K for women. “We have a great running com- munity here in San Diego,” head coach Nate Garcia said. “I really liked the opportunity to get our team exposed to them, and them exposed to our team.” ERIK JEPSEN/GUARDIAN FILE Morrill, who is redshirting this Junior Armaun Emami (left) and his doubles partner, redshirt freshman Austin West (not pictured) went undefeated at the ITA West Region to earn a spot at the National Championships from Oct. 15 season, finished the course in 15:09 to Oct 17. Along with being the sole UCSD participants, Emami and Austin will be the only representatives entire West Region. to win the race by over 15 seconds — beating out San Marcos’ Nazario Romero. Senior Mike Wright was the TRITON DUO SCORES SPOT IN ITA NATIONALS next Triton finisher, recording a time of 16:02 to take 11th place. By Jessy Jahangir kept boosting our confidence. We knew we had Sophomore Alex Corliss, freshman Contributing Writer to capitalize on our opportunities.” Mike Rizzo and sophomore John Svet THE ROAD TO The lone Tritons who emerged unscathed rounded out UCSD’s top finishes, com- MOBILE, ALABAMA TENNIS — The UCSD men’s and wom- from the late-round matches were Emami and ing in 16th, 20th and 21st, respectively. en’s tennis teams began their seasons at the redshirt freshman Austin West, whose doubles All-American junior Bre Schofield UCSD’s doubles team of Armaun Emami and Intercollegiate Tennis Association West Region team defeated a Sonoma State duo to claim the returned after missing the previous Austin West swept through the ITA West Region Championships, held at the Cal Poly Pomona ITA West Region doubles championship. meet on Sept. 26, and once again fin- Championships to earn a spot at the national tour- campus from Oct. 1 to Oct. 3. The title earns Emami and West an automat- ished as UCSD’s top female runner. A nament in Mobile, AL on Oct. 15-17. By defeating The Triton men kicked off the 2009 cam- ic ticket to the ITA National Championships, time of 18:10 made her the sixth fastest their Sonoma State opponents in the tournament’s paign with several victories at the tournament: which will be held from Oct. 15 to Oct. 17 in woman in the race and earned her 66th final round, Emami and Austin will be UCSD’s A UCSD doubles team took first place, and two Mobile, AL. place overall in the competition. sole representative at the national event. singles players advanced to the semifinal round. Both the men’s and women’s teams won with After watching from the sidelines Despite sweeping all nine of their opening- ease on the tournament’s first day, but ran into for nearly two weeks with an illness, ROUND OPPONENT SCORE day matches on Oct. 1, the women’s team suc- trouble in the quarter and semifinal games on Schofield was happy to be racing again. cumbed to tougher competition on day two, Oct. 2 and Oct. 3. “To get out there and know what when they were eliminated from the tourna- Junior Erik Elliot comfortably defeated it feels like and know what I need to OPENING CAL POLY POMONA 8-3 ment. Sonoma State’s Anthony Rollins 6-0, 6-4 in his be doing was such a good thing to do QUARTERFINAL GRAND CANYON U. 8-2 Junior Armaun Emami was very pleased quarterfinal match, but lost in the semifinals to before Triton [Classic],” Schofield said. with its season-opening performance, credit- Brigham Young University Hawaii’s Agnel Peter “To get the experience in was definitely SEMIFINAL UC SAN DIEGO 8-5 ing the strong start to intensive training and 6-2, 2-6,10-8. Similarly, sophomore Jake Fellow beneficial.” FINAL SONOMA STATE 8-5 preparation. defeated UCSD teammate Emami, 6-2, 6-1 Following Schofield were senior “Before the game, we went over our plans and Jordana Henderson in 119th place and strategies,” Emami said. “Coach [Steidlmayer] See TENNISpage 10 freshman Catherine Crisp in 128th place. Altogether, the race saw over 260 competitors. The meet fell between the Pre- Nationals Invitational in Indiana on =+;,5MV.ITT\W,Q^Q[QWV4MILQVO;MI_WT^M[ Sept. 26 and the upcoming Triton Classic on Oct. 10 — two of the The game’s second goal came in the 38th minute, Tritons’ biggest meets of the season. After losing to Sonoma State, the off the foot of freshman midfielder Kian Malek, Garcia said he only allowed those that Tritons bounced to a 2-1 victory whose first career score as a Triton gave his team a did not travel to Indiana in September 2-0 lead. to compete because he wanted to have against Humboldt State. “We finally took advantage of our chances and his entire team fresh for the upcoming were able to finish goals for the most part,” senior home meet. By Cameron Tillisch forward Tony Choi said. “We did not play our best With higher-profile races Senior Staff Writer game, but came out with a win just by sticking approaching in the coming week, the together as a team. We definitely needed to take care Ursula Rains 5K allowed UCSD to MEN’S SOCCER — UCSD battled through one of the of the ball because their only chances really came off gain experience, and — at the very most challenging stretch of season games last week. our mistakes. Their goal was just a bit of miscommu- least — get reacquainted with race-day The men hosted a match against the first nationally nication, and we basically handed it to them. Besides conditions. ranked opponent they’ve played so far, Sonoma State, that, they really had no chances.” “Most of the people who raced on Oct. 2, before taking on Humboldt State on Oct. 4. Senior Jonathan Sawyer was the driving force of [at the Ursula Rains 5K] hadn’t raced The Sonoma State Seawolves protected their the initial Triton attack, driving the ball up the left since the meet on Sept. 12,” Garcia No. 7 ranking by topping the Tritons 2-1. UCSD’s side of the field and crossing it toward the goal. Bakal said. “We wanted to get them out there, offense woke up in the weekend’s final match against took the pass from six yards out and headed it past basically as a confidence booster ahead Humboldt State, however, paced by the solid play of the Humboldt keeper into the left end of the net. of the Triton [Classic] next week.” junior midfielder David Bakal to win 2-1. Senior forward Tony Choi and freshman forward The Tritons who did not race in the The Tritons now stand 5-3-4 overall and 2-3-3 in Evan Walker got assists on Malek’s goal to help bol- Ursula Rains 5K volunteered instead California Collegiate Athletic Association play. ster the Triton offense. Senior keeper Peter Akman to help with the logistics and setup of In the victory against Humboldt State, the Tritons had a total of four saves throughout the game, carry- the meet. wasted no time: as Bakal kicked UCSD’s first goal ing on a season-long dominance between the posts. “I felt like it was a good opportunity only two minutes into the game. Bakal’s opening Though the Tritons were victorious, senior for our program, not only in the racing score fired up UCSD’s offense, whose inability to defender Danny Pavit felt there was room for JOHN HANACEK/GUARDIAN score consistently has plagued the team throughout Freshman forward Evan Walker sprang for a header in an Oct. 4 See CROSS COUNTRYpage 10 the season. See SOCCERpage 10 match against Humboldt State, pushing toward a 2-1 UCSD victory.